Using Salivary Biomarkers for Stress Assessment in Offshore Saturation Diving: A Pilot Study.

ABSTRACT: Health monitoring during offshore saturation diving is complicated due to restricted access to the divers, the desire to keep invasive procedures to a minimum, and limited opportunity for laboratory work onboard dive support vessels (DSV). In this pilot study, we examined whether measuring salivary biomarkrers in samples collected by the divers themselves might be a feasible approach to environmental stress assessment. Nine saturation divers were trained in the passive drool method for saliva collection and proceeded to collect samples at nine time points before, during, and after an offshore commercial saturation diving campaign. Samples collected within the hyperbaric living chambers were decompressed and stored frozen at -20°C onboard the DSV until they were shipped to land for analysis

SUBMITTER: Monnoyer R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8669759 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature